Wisdom

Let proposals live or die on their own

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if it's gonna die, it'll just die. I mean, it doesn't have to be it. I mean, look at activity pub. It took 10 years for anybody to do much of anything with that spec.

Episode 154: Fedified Blob (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:57:00 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Spec proposals that nobody picks up don't need to be killed. If one is going to die, it will. Some take years to catch on: ActivityPub languished for about ten years before Mastodon made it huge.